Friday, September 13, 2013

Anniversary

I
just realized that this is the tenth anniversary of Arachis Press. In
a sense, anyway — I self-published my first chapbook of poetry,
‘Pieces of the Moon,’ in 2003. At that time, I styled myself
‘Nihil Crocodile Press’ and continued to do so until I put out my
second book, the YA novel ‘The Middle of Nowhere,’ some eight
years later!

That
first edition was not only self-published but also self-printed. A
laser printer, good paper stock, and a long stapler are really all
one needs to put out a quite decent-looking product. Distribution,
however, is another matter which is why I switched to printing and
selling through Lulu for the second edition in 2005.

So
I’ll celebrate. Yay! Okay, that’s taken care of. Now back to
business!

I’m
working up a new catalog, reflecting the release of the latest book,
‘Retellings,’ and will have it on the site shortly. It might be
time I adjusted some prices anyway and maybe even put out some
revised editions (too many mistakes in both ‘Pieces of the Moon’
and ‘Dreamwinds.’).

And,
of course, I continue to make attempts at more books. As I mentioned
a while back, I’m open to working with other authors, but I do have
projects of my own in progress. Maybe I’ll finally get that fantasy
novel finished.

That
would be ‘The Song of the Sword.’ I have decided to retain that
title for the first ‘book’ of ‘Donzalo’s Destiny,’ which
should consist of two novella-length parts. The first of which is
long finished and well-polished — I considered releasing it on its
own as a 22,000 word ebook but think I will wait.

Here
is a mock-up of a possible cover. I like simple and (I hope) classy
presentations.